Official Gamecube IDE/USB interface thread (PROJECT BEGUN!)

Dark-Aries · Post by **Dark-Aries** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:39 pm

Question..have you tried the board in the GCN yet..to see if it works with it or no...and ow would be open up the boot loader? It would be on the drive I presume correct? And while we don't have it...we can only have 1 game so far?

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:54 pm

No time to talk... working... but I figured I'd throw these up here real quick. This was before I soldered the parts on, of course.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:47 pm

Electric Rain wrote:No time to talk... working... but I figured I'd throw these up here real quick. This was before I soldered the parts on, of course.

*heart attack*

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:53 pm

*eats the databoards*

MINE MINE MINE.

None for you! NONE FOR YOU.

:3

Mario · Post by **Mario** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:56 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:No time to talk... working... but I figured I'd throw these up here real quick. This was before I soldered the parts on, of course.
*heart attack*

I second that.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:59 pm

Mario wrote:
ShockSlayer wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:No time to talk... working... but I figured I'd throw these up here real quick. This was before I soldered the parts on, of course.
*heart attack*
I second that.

*seizure*

Mario · Post by **Mario** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:00 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:
Mario wrote:
ShockSlayer wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:No time to talk... working... but I figured I'd throw these up here real quick. This was before I soldered the parts on, of course.
*heart attack*
I second that.
*seizure*

*eyes explode*

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:29 am

good luck, I hope all of your work pays off
I am really looking forward to seeing a working prototype

techknott · Post by **techknott** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:58 am

Wow, ill put my name on one of these when/if they're ready.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:01 pm

Hey, figured I'd leave a quick update just so you guys know I'm still working on it...

Not much to say, though. I'm having a lot of problems, mostly with the FPGA, but even if I have to buy a new one (bent some pins... it's not in good shape ATM), I'll try to keep getting this to work. Details are meaningless; no offense, but it's highly unlikely that anybody will be able to help with the problems I'm having. I've been talking to Marshall a lot over MSN, and he's been troubleshooting with me...

Anyway, yeah... still working on it. I'll get it eventually. In the mean time, would anyone happen to have a JTAG cable I could borrow? Like, a decent, buffered one? I built a cheaptag cable, but it's pretty flaky, and may be the reason I'm having the problems I am...

jleemero · Post by **jleemero** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:09 pm

You could build a Wiggler cable.

Buffered (I think

) , and only slightly more complicated than Cheaptag.

SonyPortableizer · Post by **SonyPortableizer** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:07 pm

Mario wrote:
ShockSlayer wrote:
Mario wrote:
ShockSlayer wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:No time to talk... working... but I figured I'd throw these up here real quick. This was before I soldered the parts on, of course.
*heart attack*
I second that.
*seizure*
*eyes explode*

Dies, comes back to life still stumped again and crawls in a hole*

Dark-Aries · Post by **Dark-Aries** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:23 pm

Electric Rain wrote:Hey, figured I'd leave a quick update just so you guys know I'm still working on it...

Not much to say, though. I'm having a lot of problems, mostly with the FPGA, but even if I have to buy a new one (bent some pins... it's not in good shape ATM), I'll try to keep getting this to work. Details are meaningless; no offense, but it's highly unlikely that anybody will be able to help with the problems I'm having. I've been talking to Marshall a lot over MSN, and he's been troubleshooting with me...

Anyway, yeah... still working on it. I'll get it eventually. In the mean time, would anyone happen to have a JTAG cable I could borrow? Like, a decent, buffered one? I built a cheaptag cable, but it's pretty flaky, and may be the reason I'm having the problems I am...

First off I hope your using the right resistors for your cheaptag, second off don't you only need a PIC that does the buffering for you? You can get them on ebay very cheap...atleast that's how it is for FTA jtag cables...

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:51 pm

Whats your soldering iron like?

At work we have this sweet digital station that Im totally in love with... The iron is like 80W so it goes to whatever temperature you want in like 60 seconds from cold...

But yeah it has this "mini wave" tip for surface mount chips, you can do an entire row of pins in like 10 seconds by dragging the tip along one side of the chip. Its super awesome. Its like a chisel tip with a concave cavity on the angled face that holds a large reservoir of solder.

Its technically pretty important to keep the temperature below 600 deg F for SMT stuff... At least thats what I have to do at work.

Anyways I usually order two of all the hard-to solder chips cause its so easy to mess them up.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:59 am

Aries, no, I'm using a CHEAP cheaptag cable.

As in nothing more but a 4.7K pullup on TDO and 6 inch leads. I can't afford anything else... trust me... I have 0 dollars and 0 cents to spare, and that's NO exaggeration... but I don't want to get into that here.

Tim, check my video blog... tells all about my iron... And yeah, actually, I was soldering those SMDs at about 600F at a guess... intuition, I suppose.